Word: greco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the state line in Missouri, there was news last week of an older and more celebrated name in art: Spain's 16th century (1541-1614) master, El Greco. Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art proudly announced that it had just bought El Greco's Portrait of a Trinitarian Monk, one of his last and most impressionistic works, a magnificent study of a bearded cleric in white robes and a dark cape...
...technique, Levine is an expressionist. He twists figures and features with an El Greco-like abandon, and trowels on hot & cold colors almost as lavishly as Rouault. But Levine dislikes the term: "Expressionism," he says solemnly, "puts too high a premium on subjective reactions...
...Spain, which many Americans first discovered this year, they drank manzanilla in fake gypsy caves, trooped past the magnificent pictures in the Prado, and visited the "house of El Greco" in Toledo -in which he never lived (it was built near the site of his home some years after his death). Tourists overtipped cab drivers, loaded up with mantillas, castanets and other trinkets, and thus sent prices up. The bullfights roused strong emotions in them: they either cheered the bull, marveled at the matador, or fainted at the sight of blood...
...about established artists and the new work of contemporary painters, conservative as well as the most radical experimenters. Those of you who have been collecting TIME'S Art color pages now have a gallery of reproductions that includes the work of Toulouse-Lautrec, John Sloan, Andrew Wyeth, El Greco, Vincent Van Gogh, John Marin, Wassily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Paul Cezanne, Paolo Veronese and Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, the color pages have provided the opportunity to show a wide range of other art forms: from modern church architecture to flower arrangements, from Indian sand painting...
...Western world, in its scholarly moments, remembers St. Jerome as the learned ascetic who translated the Old Testament into serviceable 4th century Latin-his Vulgate remains the official Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. Medieval and Renaissance artists (including Raphael, El Greco, Dürer and Van Dyck) have handed down a stock portrait of a calm and cadaverous holy man who has generally-following a popular legend-just removed a thorn from a grateful lion's paw. Scholars have long known better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have...